Anonymous, Rawlinson Glossary (ca. 1612 - ca 1656)

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Date
1612ca. 1656ca
Author
Transcription source
Bodleian MS Rawlinson 108, fol. 45 ff. (microfilm)
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
hard words
Summary
A fragmentary English glossary, A-Ba
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
fols. 45-89 (?); A-Ba only
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: academy -- vniversity
Catalog
Bodleian Library. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 7 vols. in 8. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895-1953. 14601(e). view record
Facsimiles
Bodleian Library . British Literary Manuscripts from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The English Renaissance, c. 1500-c.1700. Series One: Part Two. Reel 25 . n.p.: Harvester Microform, 1988. view record
Criticisms
Osselton, N. E. "The First English Dictionary? A Sixteenth-century Compiler at Work." The History of Lexicography: Papers from the Dictionary Research Centre Seminar at Exeter, March 1986. Ed. R. R. K. Hartmann. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1986. 175-84. view record
Bliss, Philip. "Some Account of a Manuscript in Dr. Rawlinson's Collection in the Bodleian Library." Vol. II. The British Bibliographer (1812): 609-18. view record
Lancashire, Ian. "The Perils of Firsts: Dating Rawlinson MS Poet. 108 and Tracing the Development of Monolingual English Lexicons." Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations. Eds. Anne L. Curzon and Kimberley Emmons. Mouton: Walter de Gruyter, 2004. 229-72. view record